A link on LearnJazzPiano led me to www.pianotoday.com and an article by W.A. Mathieu. Here's an excerpt:
I thought that was interesting so I bought the music for Railroad and recorded it, in case any ABF members would like to hear Ms Monk's music. I haven't seen any New Age scores but based on what I've heard from ABF members posting recordings I'd say this Railroad tune is easier than the typical New Age piece. It's fun to play. Very minimalist - the left hand consists of a simple two-note pattern repeated from start to end.

I added a train to the beginning and end (why have a digital piano if you can't play trains once in a while?). I also added a bell on the first beat of each measure (the meter changes frequently) and brushes on the beat. I also messed it up a couple of places.

Rairoad (Travel Song) by Meredith Monk
(It's only a couple of minutes long)
http://www.box.net/shared/5gjxh1iguy

Hi xcal

Really nice piece - and well played! I haven't heard of Merideth Monk before, but will check out her other music. Thanks!

Euan.

Thank you Euan!

Beautiful,

Serge

Thank you Serge!

A choral piece of hers was performed at the show I tuned for Friday.

The production manager for a series I tune for sings with her.

Xcal, that was terriffic! If you hadn't told us who wrote it, I would have sworn it was a Phillip Glass piece for a movie scene that takes place on a rickety old train, with intimations of something ominous, but nothing happens. (Yet!)

Ed

Ooh... I liked this one! I wouldn't call it new age at all, though; it seemed pure minimalism through and through.

I liked the addition of the bells... it added a nice higher contrast to the steady melody.

You made me want to get a digital so I could have fun adding railroad noises etc. to pieces.

xcal - Interesting piece - brief and relatively easy to play? Yes. Deep and witty? Well . . .
Maybe that's the part you "messed up" (as you say)

I was a little surprised that the tempo was so "uptempo" - for some reason I was thinking that minimalism meant minimal in everything - not sure where I got that idea -apparently my thinking is somewhat minimalist also :p

Regards, JF

BDB: Thanks for that info BDB. Small world. My grandkids will be very surprised that I played a piece written by someone who's above ground.

Riddler, I really appreciate your comments. It is a bit melodramatic, isn't it.

Monica, I agree, this is Minimalism, not New Age. (I sent it to some friends with this message: Warning!!! This is art music :p )
I was just attempting a comparison with the New Age style in terms of difficulty. This piece wants to be played. I'm glad you liked it.

JF, undoubtedly I messed up the deep part and the train and bells probably drained some of the water out.
I played it at the upper metronome marking for the piece. But even at the lower end it zips right along. Fast or slow, the blinking red dot just gets me everytime.

:D